Baptist Chapel and Hall
BAPTIST CHAPEL AND HALL, STATION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269549
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND HALL, STATION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269549
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND HALL, STATION STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND HALL, STATION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swaffham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF8194309317
Details
TF8109
809-1/5/98
SWAFFHAM
STATION STREET (West side)
Baptist Chapel and Hall
19/10/95
II
Baptist Chapel and attached church hall. 1858. Red brick with gault-brick facade. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: facade with 2 identical 3-storey towers with, between them, a recessed gabled centre. Towers with pilasters at corners. Each tower has a 4-panelled door under a fanlight without glazing bars. Arched first-floor window with margin glazing, brick corbel courses below lantern top stage: paired corner pilasters and open arched windows to cardinal points. Pyramid roof. Centrepiece with 3 stepped arched windows to each floor. Margin glazing. Gabled roof. Returns have 5 top-hung casements. At west end is a red-brick church hall in a 3-window range of 6/6 horned sashes.
INTERIOR: gallery to east, north and south sides supported on cast-iron twisted columns with Composite capitals. Cast-iron balcony rails and moulded timber handrail. Shallow dished plaster ceiling. Organ gallery at west end. Below is a marble total immersion font with steps right and left. Pulpit and seating intact. 2 closed-string staircases with turned balusters rise to gallery at east end.
Listing NGR: TF8194309317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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